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Displaying 90 of about 160 resultsZubair Murshed, UNDP disaster risk reduction advisor to Pakistan, 2006-2009, answers questions, further to what has been called by the United Nations, as the biggest disaster to ever face the country.
According to Murshed, areas to strengthen in disaster preparedness and prevention include: forecasting and warning systems, evacuation systems, community…
Lors la cérémonie de clôture des activités de 19e journée mondiale de la lutte contre la désertification, Adamaoua, Zang III, qui présidait la session a appeler chaque citoyen à prendre conscience du danger qui guette le Cameroun à travers l’avancée du désert, selon Maturin Petsoko.
500 arbres ont été plantés dans certains sites de la région de l’Adama…
By Michel Nkurunziza
A new RWF 600 million project is set to enhance climate change information services and disaster risk reduction for farmers, according to the Rwanda Metrological Agency.
The initiative, which will be developed in the next 21 months, will increase access to timely early warning services, according to Desire Kagabo, the pr…
Geneva (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) - Every one-degree rise in temperature means a 20-fold increase in global conflicts, Wadid Erian, a specialist in arid zones and dry lands, told a meeting on drought resilience this morning.
He and other speakers warned that, with droughts set to become even more frequent and intense, food shor…
The City of Cape Town has introduced the idea of Day Zero to focus everyone’s attention on managing water consumption as tightly as possible by cajoling water consumers into reducing usage. Day Zero is when most of the city’s taps will be switched off – literally.
The consequences of reaching this point will be far reaching. For one, it will…
A new web portal puts four years of California drought data into an interactive format, showing where regions met or missed water conservation goals. The idea is to motivate awareness and conservation.
By Devon Ryan
After the wettest winter on record in 122 years, California’s waterways and reservoirs are finally replenishing to reverse the prev…
In the wake of severe drought this year and with heavy rain predicted in the next weeks, work has begun on a European Union funded EUR 1 million project to boost disaster resilience in Cambodia.
The programme, which commenced in July 2016, aims to help at least 150,000 Cambodians prepare for droughts, floods and storms. However, for the first time, wor…
By Pius Sawa
Emuhaya, Kenya - It is the top of the hour at ten o'clock in the morning and, broadcasting from the top of Esibila hill in Western Kenya, Moses Ombogo is telling farmers to prepare for early rains.
"My dear listener, mother, father, grandma, grandpa, uncle and aunt, we are happy to inform you that the rains have now come and you should be…
In Senegal, the Senate is being abolished in order to free up $15 million annually to counter the effects of heavy flooding and improve the country's infrastructure, a move that has been cited as a step in the right direction in disaster risk reduction and management and a lesson other African countries could pick up.
In an interview with Africa Review…
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The government of Senegal is pionneering a Panafrican risk pol for disaster risk management to lower dependency on international emergency aid.
Technical workshop - 16-17 July in Mbour
Dakar - This year, as almost every year, images of drought-stricken women and children appea…
Washington - In February 2000, intense flooding left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in the African nation of Mozambique. The cause: a tropical cyclone and heavy rainfall which many experts attributed to the effects of climate change.
More than a decade later, February 2012 turned out to be a turbulent month for the island nation of Madagascar…
By Pius Sawa
Kampala - Farmers and herders in Uganda’s cattle corridor are benefiting from timely information on climate and weather patterns delivered on their mobile phones, over the radio and even in churches, thanks to an initiative that has won the backing of religious and other trusted community leaders.
The Climate Change Adaptation and ICT (CH…
By Munyaradzi Makoni
It was in Mbeere, in rural Kenya, where Muthoni Masinde began to pick up on nature's way of signposting shifting weather patterns, as she helped her mother farm their land.
She learned that if thick swarms of crickets appeared in the evenings during planting season, it meant the rains were about to end - a sign that farmers should…
GENEVA, 24 January, 2019 – Earthquakes and tsunamis accounted for the majority of the 10,733 lives lost in disasters last year while extreme weather events accounted for most of 61.7 million people affected by natural hazards, according to analysis of 281 events recorded by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in its EM-…
A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk reduction recognize the vulnerability Arab cities and towns to disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes,…